The UW-Whitewater baseball team, ranked tenth in the D3baseball.com poll, lost to Illinois Wesleyan University, in the "others receiving votes" category of the poll, 4-0 Saturday in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Box score

Wesleyan scored all four runs in the fourth inning, when they combined five singles, a Warhawk error and a sacrifice. 

IWU junior Jeff Johnson pitched the complete game shutout to pick up his first win of the season.  Justin Lambert (Mt. Horeb/Mt. Horeb) went the first six innings for UW-W, Justin Mortensen (Hartland/Arrowhead) the next two, and Curtis Morgan (Green Lake/Green Lake) closed out the game with an inning of work for the Warhawks.  Lambert struck out two, walked one and hit one batter.

Catcher Mike Mierow (Brookfield/Central) led UW-W batters with a 2x3 day, with first baseman Marty Herum (River Falls/River Falls) contributing a double and a walk in his four at bats.  Titan third baseman Johnathan Erickson went 2x4 to lead his team. 

UW-W is 3-2 this season.   Illinois Wesleyan is 5-2.

UW-Whitewater's first home appearance of the season will be March 30 at 1:00, when Ripon College visits Prucha Field at Jim Miller Stadium on the north end of the UW-W campus.